On Sat, 07 May 2011 17:48:31 +0100, AG wrote:

> On 07/05/11 17:26, Camaleón wrote:

(...)

>>> The IP address is now consistent.
>>>
>>> Now is this likely to hold when I reboot so that I can access the Net?
>> (...)
>>
>> Sure, and if not something is very badly broken. Restart the machine to
>> be sure and if the IP address changes again, review your syslog.
> 
> I guess something is "very badly broken" then.  After rebooting, the
> blessed problems start all over again and I cannot access the web at
> all.  The following are all copied before applying Brian's #dhclient
> eth0 trick:

(...)

> $ /sbin/ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:47:05:a3:07
>            inet addr:192.168.1.40  Bcast:192.168.1.255 
>            Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::290:47ff:fe05:a307/64
>            Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:414 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX
>            packets:322 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:376637 (367.8 KiB)  TX bytes:90428 (88.3 KiB)
>            Interrupt:18 Base address:0xec00

(...)

Wait, wait... your IP is the one you configured so there is nothing 
broken. The problem now is that you cannot access the web but that's 
another different issue.

> So ... what now?
> 
> Yours helplessly lost

Now you have to make another tests, but you need to configure your 
network with the static layout to try this :-)

Once you restore the static IP, run "dig @8.8.8.8 google.com" and put 
here the output.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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